Jon, Thanks. It seems almost impossible that many miles, that cannons could be heard, especially with all the timber of that era. I guess, in our day with all the noise, it is difficult to imagine the peace and quite that lay over the land and sound would travel to where you could hear it farther since the noise level would not be as great with all the cars, trucks, factories and etc. Thanks, Linda

Linda, I can imagine that the 6000 troops at that battle could make a very large noise and with cannon going of on both sides it might just be possible that the noise would carry on up the Cumberland and Tennessee River Valleys and across the Ohio into Illinois. I see that you mention "a lot of timber" I'd bet that most of that area was farm land, you'll have to remember that today the region is almost all Park land and preserved. I've been to several battle grounds here in the South and beleive me it would not be possible to have such a battle today with all of the forrest land present. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dolluver01@aol.com> To: <ILSALINE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [ILSALINE-L] FORT DONELSON > Jon, > Thanks. It seems almost impossible that many miles, that cannons could be > heard, especially with all the timber of that era. I guess, in our day with > all the noise, it is difficult to imagine the peace and quite that lay over > the land and sound would travel to where you could hear it farther since the > noise level would not be as great with all the cars, trucks, factories and > etc. > Thanks, > Linda > >